Kańczuga / Siedleczka Cemetery

The Kańczuga / Siedleczka Cemetery

The cemetery is situated about 1.5 miles WSW of Kańczuga on the road to
Siedleczka. Gravestones were removed from cemetery and used to pave the main
road to the cemetery and other roads and properties.

Howard Nightingale writes:

" Set out to find cemetery in Siedleczka. By serendipity we stopped a
lady on the street and asked her. She said she lived next to it and she would
show us if we gave her a lift to her house. The cemetery is off of the main road
and is not visible from the road. It is about a two minute ride from Kańczuga.
If not for this lady we would not have found the cemetery. You must navigate up
an old muddy hilly road to a farmer's home. There we asked the farmer's wife and
she took us on foot to the place. The cemetery is completely overgrown with
poison ivy, bushes and trees. It is less than one acre in size (I estimate) and
is inaccessible except at the outer edges. There are piles of headstones and
some standing.

ć,
Bialoboki, Manasterz,
Zagórze,
Kańczuga, Markowa, Jawornik Polski,
Zabratówka, Chmielnik. After 1939
the Jews were no longer allowed to erect Matzevot (tombstones).My cousin
said that last time he was there, the mud road had been paved with the Matzevot.
The farmer's wife advised that someone had received permission to pull out the
Matzevot and pile them back in the cemetery, hence the mud road. The farmer
ploughs on all three sides of the cemetery. The farmer's wife showed us the mass
grave at the base of the hill where the cemetery is located. There is an
overgrown stone markerindicating that the remaining Jews of Kańczuga had
been rounded up and marched out here and shot in 1942.

The farmer's wife said that some one should reclaim the cemetery. This is
what my family, with the assistance of others hope to do, like the Ozarów
reclamation.